BLM and Washington Department of Natural Resources Parcels
Middle Klickitat River Drainage
T4N R14E S16
Elevation: 900-1300'
March 15, 2013
Weather: Partly sunny in the morning to increasingly overcast with the sun trying to shine through the cloud layer. Mt. Adams and Mt. Hood (with thick lenticular clouds) visible in the morning but obscured by lowering cloud layer in the afternoon. Temperatures high 50s with light winds to 4 mph increasing to 10-15 mph in the afternoon. Klickitat Canyon visible from lower Swale Canyon north to Soda Springs. Lower Canyon Creek and lower Little Klickitat River visible. North side of the Columbia Hills and upper High Prairie are snow free. The Simcoe Mountains are covered with snow.
Pelt Lichen: Peltigera sp. (dark muddy brown with long, brown reproductive structures)
Juniper Moss: Polytrichum juniperinum
Polytrichum Moss: Polytrichum pilferum
Ponderosa Pine: Pinus ponderosa var. ponderosa
Douglas Fir: Pseudotsuga menziesii var. menziesii
Alder: Alnus sp.
Oregon White Oak: Quercus garryana
* Willow: Salix sp.
Elk Sedge: Carex geyeri
Cheatgrass: Bromus tectorum
Bottlebrush Squirreltail: Elymus elymoides (ssp. ?)
Prairie Junegrass: Koeleria macrantha
Bluebunch Wheatgrass: Pseudoroegneria spicata
Medusa-head: Taenitherum caput-medusae
Onion or Harvest Lily: Allium sp. or Triteleia sp.
Sagebrush Mariposa: Calochortus macrocarpus var. macrocarpus - Many plants with basal leaves.
Panicle Deathcamas: Toxicoscordion paniculatum
* Grass Widows: Olsynium douglasii var. douglasii - A few plants in bloom.
Rein Orchids: Piperia (elegans or unalascensis ?)
* Common Chickweed: Stellaria media
Upland Larkspur: Delphinium nuttallianum var. nuttallianum - In bud.
* Spring Whitlow-grass: Draba verna
* Scalepod: Idahoa scapigera
Gooseberry-leaved Alumroot: Heuchera grossulariifolia var. tenuifolia
* Smooth Prairie Stars: Lithophragma glabrum
Northwestern Saxifrage: Saxifraga integrifolia var. claytoniifolia - A few plants in bud.
Oceanspray: Holodiscus discolor
Velvet Lupine: Lupinus leucophyllus
Columbia Gorge Lupine: Lupinus sp. (latifolius X sericeus ?) or Wyeth Lupine: Lupinus wyethii ?
Filaree: Erodium cicutarium
Deerbrush: Ceanothus integerrimus
Slender Clarkia: Clarkia gracilis ? or (Small-flowered Godetia: Clarkia purpurea ssp. quadrivulnera ?)
Tall Annual Willowherb: Epilobium brachycarpum
Ciliate Willowherb: Epilobium ciliatum (ssp. ?)
Burr Chervil: Anthriscus caucalis ?
* Columbia Desert Parsley: Lomatium columbianum - Beginning to bloom.
* Pungent Desert Parsley: Lomatium grayi - Beginning to bloom.
* Biscuitroot: Lomatium macrocarpum (yellow flowers) - Beginning to bloom.
Barestem Desert Parsley: Lomatium nudicaule
* Salt and Pepper: Lomatium piperi (with possibility some were L. gormanii) - Corms were palatible. Some plants were caulescent, others seemed to be acaulescent.
Suksdorf's Desert Parsley: Lomatium suksdorfii - Leaves just starting to come out.
* Desert Shooting Star: Dodecatheon conjugens - Beginning to bloom.
Poet's Shooting Star: Dodecatheon poeticum - In bud.
Columbia Frasera: Frasera albicaulis var. columbiana
Showy Phlox: Phlox speciosa
Puccoon: Lithospermum ruderale
Common Monkeyflower: Mimulus guttatus
Yarrow: Achillea millefolium var. occidentalis
Low Pussytoes: Antennaria dimorpha
Carey's Balsamroot: Balsamorhiza careyana
Knapweed: Centaurea (diffusa?)
Gray Rabbitbrush: Ericameria nauseosa (var. ?)
Yellow Salsify: Tragopogon dubius
Western Groundsel: Senecio integerrimus (var. exaltatus or var. ochroleucus ?)
Earth Stars (Geastraceae)
California Ground Squirrels
Western Gray Squirrel nests ?
Mule Deer
Red-tailed Hawks
Ravens
American Crow
Pileated Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Downy Woodpecker
Killdeer
Western Meadowlarks
American Robins - numerous
Western Bluebirds
Dark-eyed Juncos
Pacific Tree Frog
Great Arctic